Lucas and Luna dig into one of the most underappreciated drivers of cloud cost overruns: data egress fees. Using a real example from a mid-size SaaS company that saw its monthly AWS bill jump from $12,000 to $47,000 after a single architecture change, they explain how egress pricing works across AWS, Azure, and GCP, why it's so easy to overlook, and what engineering teams can do to avoid the trap. Lucas walks through specific numbers — like the $0.09 per gigabyte AWS charges to move data out of its network versus $0.00 to move it between services inside the same region — and Luna pushes back on whether the pricing is intentionally opaque. They also touch on recent regulatory pressure in Europe and what it might mean for future cloud billing. No filler, just a focused look at a hidden cost that can demolish a startup's margin.

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